For years I made certain to be in front
of a browser from 2PM to 5PM, Monday through
Friday, as that's when it was time for
The Randi
Rhodes Show, featuring the smartest,
funniest, ballsiest woman
on radio. She was my political muse and
this comic is a direct result of her progressive
wisdom. Unfortunately, for reasons that
are still murky, she folded her pundit
tent last May and headed for the verdant
climes of Costa Rica, right before a
big, fat, juicy Mid-Terms election flooded
with Koch dark money funding imbecilic
conservative candidates. (Exhibit A: Joni
Ernst)

My heart was broken that May day, the same as it was broken today when Jon Stewart
announced his imminent retirement from The Daily Show. He was the best at what
he did but he's got money in the bank and a couple of kids he wants to watch
grow, so the more power to him.

Still, including Stephen Colbert, that's three powerful progressive voices that
will no longer have a daily soapbox to interpret the vagaries of the American
political
morass, especially the 2016 presidential election. Yes, we'll still have Rachel
Maddow
but
she's
an
interlocutor,
not
a
tummler
like Stephen or Jon. Those men made the news accessible to people who wouldn't
otherwise care. And we're gonna miss them more than we know.

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As
some of you know I'm also creating Raging Pencils 'toons for the good folks at friendlyathesist.com.
Number Four in a series of 666 posted today but you'll have to visit their site
to see it. So click either the enticing red link above or the semi-artistic image
to
your
left.